New registration system
will give helpful features
Some students report having
trouble with the system
Samuel T.O. Branch
Deputy News Editor

Students registering for summer and fall classes will notice
dramatic changes to the registration system according to Louis
Hunt, vice provost and university
registrar. Hunt said the changes
in the system, such as automatic
prerequisite enforcement and a
wish list feature, have been in the
works for several years.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The old system is old technology,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This system was
purchased quite a while ago. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
just a step in the integrating process.â&#x20AC;?
The transition is part of a necessary updating of software on
many University systems, Hunt
said.
Although the transition should

be mostly beneficial, Hunt said,
he warned it will also be tough.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a massive amount of
change, the largest amount of
change weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever put the University through, and that is inherently difficult,â&#x20AC;? Hunt said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re quite optimistic about
the way things are going.â&#x20AC;?
Janell Moretz-Henderson, an
academic advisor for the College of Natural Resources, said
she is hearing complaints from
students.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The feedback Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
positive,â&#x20AC;? Moretz-Henderson
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t real crazy
about it.â&#x20AC;?
Upperclassmen in particular
are having the most trouble,
Moretz-Henderson said, because
they are most accustomed to the
older system. She said the system
isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too hard, but it will take a lot
of getting used to.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we get students acclimated to it, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more accli-

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day of a class
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have to drop a class and then add
one quickly
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enforcement
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mated ourselves...it will be a positive change,â&#x20AC;? Moretz-Henderson
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is an easier system, it is
just retraining yourself.â&#x20AC;?
The system is so different that
all advisors had to go through a
training process so they could
educate students, Moretz-Henderson said.

But Moretz-Henderson said
the new features of the system are a plus, with beneficial
changes on both the student
and the faculty side of things.
Some of the new benefits Moretz-Henderson and
Hunt mentioned are extended
waitlists until the fifth day
of a class, a swap feature so
students donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to drop a
class and then add one quickly, automatic prerequisite enforcement and being able to
access the requirements of
different degrees that are not
a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s particular major,
just to name a few.
Some students, however,
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know about of
most of these features.
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those things. Maybe they
could advertise about it more
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Kelli Rogers, Senate president pro tempore and chair of the select
committee on hate crimes, speaks to television media following the
almost unanimous vote to approve the Hate Crimes Bill of which she
was instrumental in the creation Nov. 19. Rogers is running unopposed for Student Senate President.

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Emily Cannady, a freshman in First Year College, speaks to vegetarian advocates in the Brickyard Tuesday. NCSU SPARC (Students Promoting Animal Rights Collectively) enlightens students about the science and ethics behind animal rights through interactive events such as
lectures, films and social gatherings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ate fruit and vegetables for lunch today because the information I saw outside really impacted me,â&#x20AC;?
Cannady said.

Plans to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Freeze the Brickyardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; underway
Group aims for laughs,
lots of participation
John Cline
Staff Writer

The Brickyard is going to freeze
for the second time April 1. Zack
Berman, a junior in biological
science, and Riley Miller, a sophomore in aerospace engineering,
are coordinating the effort for the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;freezeâ&#x20AC;? with Berman in charge
and Miller at second in command after leading last year.
Freezing occurs when a group
of people, all with synchronized
watches and congregating in
the same area,simply stop what
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing and stand completely still for five minutes,
regardless of how those around
them react. The trend began
in 2002 when the group â&#x20AC;&#x153;Improv Everywhereâ&#x20AC;? from New
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Jonathan Mucci, then a junior in history, freezes in the Brickyard during last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freeze the Brickyard event. Mucci said the event, which
took place March 19, 2008., was really hyped up on Facebook.

Central Station and the video
gained wide play on YouTube,
with 16,107,979 hits so far.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I first got the idea last year
when my uncle showed me the
[Grand Central] video,â&#x20AC;? Miller

said.â&#x20AC;?I just thought, we can totally do this, so we gave it a try.â&#x20AC;?
According to Miller, the event
took off better than hoped.
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year, I was hoping for maybe 80

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;But within two nights after creating the group it had
about 500 members. It was
ridiculous.â&#x20AC;?
Only about 150 of those
showed up for the event last
year, according to Berman.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year it got hype, but
we started it too soon and the
hype had time to die down,â&#x20AC;?
Berman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year I took
the initiative and got the officers and everyone more organized. I also picked April
Foolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day so it would stick
in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minds.â&#x20AC;?
Miller said the event has
grown substantially from last
years event.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We already have over 800
people in the Facebook group,
and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still over two
weeks to go,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Optimistically weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping to see

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This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Student Senate president and student body treasurer
positions are uncontested, as
ended up being the case during
last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student body elections.
For Student Senate president,
Kelli Rogers, Student Senate pro
tempore and junior in political
science, is the only candidate.
And for student body treasurer,
Elmo Lamm, Student Senate
Finance Committee chair and
freshman in business management, is the only candidate.
Andrew Tucker, Elections
Commission chair and senior
in political science, attributed
two main reasons to this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those
running projected themselves to
other members of Student Government clearly and these two
positions have qualifications
candidates could only have obtained through prior Student
Government experience.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Treasurer is an awkward position. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of work, a lot of
managerial work, particularly,â&#x20AC;?
Tucker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Senate president is
very internal. You do have to be
a senator for the majority of the
previous year to run.â&#x20AC;?
But, he said he thinks this year
in particular, others who may
have thought about running
saw that the two students who
had already declared their intent
to run for those positions were
qualified.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a certain

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amount of prowess and experience required for Senate president and treasurer,â&#x20AC;? Tucker said.
Rogers said she is qualified for
the job not only because of her
experience.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m qualified is
because I still have the passion
and the drive and the motivation to see Senate become and
do more than it has in the past
two years,â&#x20AC;? she said.
And though Rogers said she is
relieved she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to run
a campaign and thinks part of
the reason no one else is running
is because of the prerequisites
of the position, it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best
scenario.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do believe in competition
when it comes to student leader
roles and student leader positions,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does disappoint me that for the second
year in a row, this position is
uncontested.â&#x20AC;?
And for Rogers, the way to
combat this problem is to make
Senate more visible to the student
body.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Senators are supposed to represent their college. A constituent should know their senator.
And a senator should make that
happen,â&#x20AC;? she said.
For student body treasurer,
Lamm said he thinks people are
scared away from the position
possibly because the past two
treasurers ended up resigning.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty heavy job,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It requires a lot of work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not
a glamorous job.â&#x20AC;?
But Lamm said he is qualified
for the position because of his
experience within Student Government and his work ethic.
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Pan Afrikan
Festival begins
March 28

In Wednesday’s page-one photo
for the article “Atrium food court to
get second face lift,” the byline was
incorrect. The photo was actually
taken by Tim O’Brien.
In Monday’s page-one article
“Weather dampens festival,” the
two fraternities listed as pie tasting
winners actually won the barbacue
contest.
Technician regrets these errors.

The 39th annual Pan Afrikan Festival will be held this
year beginning on March 28.
The event, sponsored by the
Black Students Board, will
last until April 3. Events will
include a Gospel Explosion,
modeling and fashion shows,
Pride Day in the Brickyard,
and a Greek Step Show on
April 3 in Stewart Theatre in
Talley Student Center. A full
schedule of the various events
scattered across campus can
be found at the Union Activities Board’s website. Tickets
for the events range from free
to $10 for students and free to
$20 for the public.

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ayla Edwards, a sophomore in elementary education, and Austin Howe, sophomore in
business management and accounting, study next to the fountain next to Talley Student
Center Tuesday afternoon. The fountain was drained due to the drought and has now
been refilled and repainted. “I am really excited to see the fountain up and running. It’s a really
relaxing atmosphere out here on the NCSU campus,” Howe said.

A session titled “Legacies
+ Layers = Lenses” will be
held March 25 from 9 a.m. to
noon. Panelists will educate
students in an interactive way
on how to manage negative
conflict in ways that promote
growth and build others up.
The event will be held in the
Brown Room inside Talley
Student Center. Students
can register online at the Office for Equal Opportunity’s
website.
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vid Drosback, a senior in mechanical engineering, said.
Moretz-Henderson said another big change is the introduction of a wish list. Students
will be able to log in before their
window opens and add all of the
courses they wish to take. Then,
whenever it is time for the student to register, they just log in,
click and it automatically adds
all of the courses on the wish list
if they are still available. It will
then show a window notifying
the student of courses added to
the schedule.
Drosback said he did use this
feature, but that the old system
worked better for him.
“It was difficult. I never found

the tutorial until after the fact,”
he said. “It was a time-consuming process.”
But although some students
are having a little trouble, Hunt
said the transition has gone well
so far.
“I’m very pleased with how
its gone and I don’t think you’ll
find a smoother transition in the
country,” Hunt said, adding that
the new system will be better for
the University as it continues to
change. “[The features of the
system] should provide a lot of
flex, but the real thing is that...it
meets the changing needs of the
institution.”
The previous system was so
old that it just didn’t make much
sense anymore, Hunt said.
“Our old system was written 25
years ago and the assumptions
that were made don’t apply to the

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about 400 turn out.”
Others are taking notice.
According to the two leaders,
WolfTV will be covering the
event with at least two cameras
this year.
But even with the increased
publicity this year, the group isn’t
worried about losing the element
of surprise.
“Will we surprise people? Absolutely!” Berman said. “Last
year at least 80%percent of
people had no idea and it was
on Facebook for over 2 months.”
Miller also said people would
still be shocked.
“I test it out sometimes when
I walk around,” he said. “I’ll ask
people if they’ve heard of it, and
the vast majority haven’t.”
According to Miller, this is
something everyone should take
time to be a part of.
“It’s just something we can do
to relax and have fun,”he said.

And Lamm said his hopes
are that next year’s finance
committee will consist of
students he feels are the most
qualified for it, which will in
turn, promote the office of
student body treasurer in addition to the work he hopes to
accomplish.
“My pledge is I’m going to
give this office 100 percent of
my time,” he said.
Tucker said some people
have brought up the idea of
selecting the treasurer and
Senate president within Student Government because of
the qualifications and because
most students do not know
what these two officials do
day-to-day.
But, he said, it would be up
to the student body to propose that if the students were

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University anymore,” he said.
Hunt also said a number of
things are in the works that make
this change necessary because
the old system couldn’t accommodate the needs.
“You might have new types
of sessions in summer school,”
Hunt said. “We’re making a
new grading option for the vet
school. We’re [moving toward]
applying for graduation online.
We will be replacing the degree
audit system.”
The new system is one to which
many other large schools have already switched, Hunt said.
“This system is used by most
large schools like ourselves,”
Hunt said, mentioning Stanford,
UCLA and Wisconsin-Madison
in particular.

comfortable with it.
“At the end of the day, it’s the
Democratic spirit that takes
over,” he said. “It’s like the state
and local elections ... the treasurer and Senate president service
the students.”
Both Rogers and Lamm agreed.
“Senate president definitely
does not [need to be elected internally]. It needs to be a public
position. If the position is only
selected within Senate, it would
put Senate in a rut. It would become an internal body. Also, the
Student Senate president is the
student body vice president,”
Rogers said.
And Lamm said the treasurer
position is an important one for
the student body to vote on.
“If there were two [candidates],
it’d be important for the students
to choose which one,” he said.
“And their fee money [is paying
the elected official].”

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SIMPLE RULES OF TRADING
1.

Never, Ever, Ever, Under Any Circumstance, Add To A Losing
Position. Not ever, not never! Adding to losing positions is trading’s
carcinogen; it is trading’s driving while intoxicated.
It will lead to ruin. Count on it!

2.

Trade Like A Wizened Mercenary Soldier. We must fight on
the winning side, not on the side we may believe to be correct
economically.

3.

Mental Capital Trumps Real Capital. Capital comes in two types,
mental and real, and the former is far more valuable than the latter.
Holding losing positions costs measurable real capital, but it costs
immeasurable mental capital.

4.

This Is Not A Business Of Buying Low And Selling High. It is,
however, a business of buying high and selling higher. Strength tends
to beget strength, and weakness, weakness.

5.

In Bull Markets One Can Only Be Long Or Neutral, And In Bear
Markets, One Can Only Be Short Or Neutral. This may seem selfevident; few understand it however, and fewer still embrace it.

6.

“Markets Can Remain Illogical Far Longer Than You Or I Can
Remain Solvent.” These are Keynes’ words, and illogic does often
reign, despite what the academics would have us believe.

7.

Buy Markets That Show The Greatest Strength; Sell Markets That
Show The Greatest Weakness. Metaphorically, when bearish we
need to throw rocks into the wettest paper sacks, for they break most
easily. When bullish we need to sail the strongest winds, for they carry
the farthest.

8.

Think Like A Fundamentalist; Trade Like A Simple Technician.
The fundamentals may drive a market and we need to understand
them, but if the chart is not bullish, why be bullish? Be bullish when
the technicals and fundamentals, as you understand them, run in
tandem.

9.

Trading Runs In Cycles, Some Good, Most Bad. Trade large and
aggressively when trading well; trade small and ever smaller when
trading poorly. In good times, even errors turn to profits; in bad times,
the most well-researched trade will go awry. This is the nature of
trading; accept it and move on.

10.

Keep Your Technical Systems Simple. Complicated systems breed
confusion; simplicity breeds elegance. The great traders we’ve known
have the simplest methods of trading. There is a correlation here!

11.

In Trading or Investing, An Understanding of Mass Psychology
Is Often More Important Than an Understanding of Economics.
Simply put, “When they are cryin’, you should be buyin’! And when
they are yellin’, you should be sellin’!”

12.

Bear Market Corrections Are More Violent And Far Swifter Than
Bull Market Corrections. Why they are is still a mystery to us, but
they are; we accept it as fact and we move on.

13.

There Is Never Just One Cockroach. The lesson of bad news on
most stocks is that more shall follow — usually hard upon and always
with detrimental effect upon price, until such time as panic prevails
and the weakest hands finally exit their positions.

Presenting Dennis Gartman

14.

The Global Financial Meltdown:
Strategies to Stay Afloat

Be Patient With Winning Trades; Be Enormously Impatient With
Losing Trades. The older we get, the more small losses
we take each year — and our profits grow accordingly.

15.

Do More Of That Which Is Working And Less Of That Which Is Not.
This works in life as well as trading. Do the things that have been
proven of merit. Add to winning trades; cut back or eliminate losing
ones. If there is a secret to trading (and of life), this is it.

16.

All Rules Are Meant To Be Broken — But Only Very, Very
Infrequently. Genius comes in knowing how truly infrequently one
can do so and still prosper.

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University should advertise registration changes
THE ISSUE:

The University has not
given students enough
information about the new
registration system.

OUR OPINION:

The University must make
sure students understand
the new system and are
integrated into it well.

THE SOLUTION:

The University must
advertise the new system in
places that are visible to all
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‘Watchmen’ supports rape
I recently saw the movie Watchmen,
and I was very upset with the way
things were allowed to be portrayed
in the movie. The scene that I am
specifically referring to is the raping
of Sally Jupiter by The Comedian. The
fact that he used brute strength to
force her to have sex and his name
means more to me than just a rape
scene. His name implies that the
things he does are meant to be funny
or evoke laughter. I personally do not
find rape, in any way, as something to
laugh at. In our society, children tend
to look up to super heroes and try to
act like them.
The fact that The Comedian is
supposed to be a superhero sends a
very bad message to today’s youth.
Though he is not as big as batman or
superman, he is still a super hero, and
there will be kids who will see this
movie and want to act like him.
Some of the people who have seen
this movie have themselves been
raped, and this makes it seem like it’s
OK or that it is normal. I personally
have stopped more than 100 people
from seeing this movie and will continue to discourage people from going to see it. Supporting rape is never
a good thing, especially in a movie
where the superheroes do the raping.
I would like to see something written about this in the Technician.
Joshua Hamilton
sophomore, science education

Pornography is unacceptable
I embrace nudity in many aspects.
The human body is a tangible celebration of life, and I fully support
nude colonies, nude beaches, nude
art, et cetera. As much as I appreciate
the human body, I have no tolerance
for pornography in that both women
and men alike are no longer portrayed as humans but as objects.
To objectify a human being
becomes dangerous because overexposure to the idea of dehumanization conditions our minds to accept
pornography as just another part of
our culture.
I guess that’s probably why I have
not heard much negative uproar
about Playboy’s scheduled appearance on campus. We need to stand
up as a community and University
and let Playboy know that its objectification cannot be targeted toward
our women. N.C. State women come
to [the] University to learn in hopes of
successful, fulfilling futures.
To openly disrespect our desires of
wanting to break away from oppressive jobs for which millions of women
sell their bodies is a direct insult to us
as individuals and as human beings.
I understand the plausible debates
to my viewpoint, so if you are an
individual who supports Playboy’s appearance on campus and see nothing
wrong with pornography- at the very
least, support and love the women in
your lives by letting them know that
beauty is not objectification.
Grace Young
senior, accounting

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board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the
editor-in-chief.

he University is integrating
a new registration system
for students to register for
summer and fall classes.
The new program has beneficial
features that will make it easier
for students to sign up for classes and is designed to be better
than the old system and is used
by other colleges, such as UCLA
and Stanford.
Louis Hunt, vice provost and
university registrar, said the old
system was written 25 years ago
and that the University’s registration system needed to be updated.
We are glad that the University
had students in mind when it decided to adopt this new system
and it is about time to improve
the registration process, but the

University did not prepare students for the new registration
system effectively.
Students needed more of a
warning about the new system.
The University should have at
least sent out e-mails or done
more advertising to tell students
about the new system.
The University is putting a full
page advertisement in Monday’s
Technician explaining how to
use the new system, but students
started registering for classes as
early as March 11. The University also could have advertised
the changing of the registration
systems on the University’s Web
site.

Upperclassmen are generally
the first students to register for
classes, but upperclassmen are
the ones having the most trouble
getting used to the new system,
according to Janell Moretz-Henderson, an academic advisor for
the College of Natural Resources.
The University must make sure
students, especially seniors, understand the new system so it
does not affect the four year
graduation rate.
There have been some complaints from students who do
not understand how to use the
system, and there is a tutorial on
the Web site for students, but it
is difficult to find. The tutorial

should be the easiest link to find
on the Web site.
We understand the University
wants to have a smooth transition into the new registration
system, but this doesn’t mean
the University has to neglect explaining the changes to students.
The new system is better integrated than MyPack Portal was
when it was first introduced by
the University but improvements
can still be made. The University needs to do all it can to make
sure students understand the
new registration site and should
use whatever means necessary to
make the transition as smooth as
possible.

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BY GINA VACCARO

I am a huge supporter of the Technician because it allows students here
to learn about different events that
are taking place on campus or in
the community and allows us to get
involved.
After reading the Technician Monday, I came across an advertisement
that was not only disturbing but appeared to be encouraging females on
our campus to represent N.C. State, a
great institution, through a Playboy
magazine. I did some research and
learned that this audition has taken
place at N.C. State before and was
completely upset with the way the
chosen girls were displayed in the
Technician as if the Technician itself
were a magazine similar to Playboy.
Playboy not only objectifies women
in order to sell its products, but it also
contributes to the rape culture that
already exists. One in every six women will be sexually assaulted in her
lifetime, and college-age women are
four times more likely to be sexually
assaulted. I am not suggesting that
Technician completely remove the
advertisement. I am just requesting
that you do not display such photos
from the magazine of the girls who
were chosen to pose for Playboy like
you did in 2004.
I hope that Technician takes these
points into consideration and remember that it is a newspaper, not a
magazine.
Shonteisha Speight
sophomore, biology

Playboy does not belong
in ‘Technician’
I am concerned that the Technician
would print a Playboy ad. It’s sad that
because women students are at N.C.
State to learn and not be solicited by
Playboy. The things the interested
women have to do to even get looked
at by Playboy are absolutely ridiculous and disgraceful. For one to even
be considered to meet with Playboy
reps, one has to send photos of themselves, measurements and once they
get those pictures, they are Playboy’s
property and it can do whatever they
please without asking the woman who
sent them in.
The fact that Technician did big articles in 2004 on Playboy is ridiculous.
Please do not let this happen again,
because the only thing those articles
are doing is promoting something
that degrades women. There are so
many women that don’t measure up
to what Playboy is interested in and
get their feelings hurt because they
are not chosen. The way the women
who were in the spread weren’t portrayed as intelligent women, instead
they were portrayed as a women with
only good looks. Please do not print
any more ads on Playboy coming to
N.C. State or do any more articles on
it. No more degrading women please
and thanks.

Hopefully, the next student body president will directly impact students more.
Remember to vote!

Phil Hursey, junior in biochemistry

“Yes, it’s awesome. Last semester I
didn’t get any of the classes that I
wanted so with this system I think I
will.”
Annie Wheeler
freshman, sports management

Students should not be forced
to financially support athletics

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his year alone, each
student was charged
$200 for something
unrelated to education: athletics. A bit more than $6.4
million this year!
Since when does running
around in
spandex
and playing with an
object cost
$246.50
per year?
This is the
Mansoor Omar proposed
Staff columnist
expense
for intercollegiate athletics
next year. If you ask me, I
would run around in spandex and play with an object
for free.
Let us be honest, sports is
not a venture which screams
“higher education!”
Last time I checked, I came
here for an education, not
entertainment in the form
of intercollegiate athletics. I
am a student. I buy books and
participate in organizations.
I can only work part time
jobs and I can only afford so
much. Students have to pay
for meals, gas, housing, etc.
Intercollegiate athletics are
like leeches on student monies, the expense should not be
a “mandatory” burden of the
student body.
A student concerned for opportunities for athletics and
physical fitness would ask,

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Sports Editor

Viewpoint Editor

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Features Editor

“Is this fee to assist in enhancing
student health and athleticism?”
The answer would be Campus
recreation and Carmichael Gymnasium have their own slice of
student fees; $157.60 for ‘08-’09
and a proposed $189.10 for ‘09’10.
A student concerned about
money (every single one of us
during a recession) would rightfully inquire, “Since when is intercollegiate athleticism a ‘necessity’ for a school? Why does
a small percentage of the student
body admitted for athleticism
when other students actually
have brain power?”
Student athletes pay the minimum, with their own tutors and
better food in Case Dining Hall.
I wonder why students don’t refer
to students as well-educated panhandlers. Nonstudent athletes
pay for all of these amenities and
never see the benefits.
This University’s monetary
expenditures are atrocious and
heinous. Since when is being a
spendthrift “mandatory?” I liken
this administrative activity to
squandering, pilfering and daylight robbery. The administration better get their act together
at this University. They reek of
the “ivory tower.” I guess it is
easy to throw away money you
don’t work for. Surely there are
better ways to spend roughly
$6.4 million.
Even if athletes had feces that
smelled of roses, I doubt I’d
want to swell heads and empty

Have you used the
new registration
system? If so, what do
you think about it?

’Technician’ should not repeat
mistake

Jamequia Miller
sophomore, social work

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my pockets for athletics ever.
What’s sad is, in four years,
I can count on one hand the
number of times I have gone
to an athletic event. I’ve
spent about $200 to attend
four meaningless and inconsequential events. I forgot,
sports do have a purpose: to
waste time and money and
distract people from worthy
concerns, like improving the
world.
Intercollegiate athletics are
of little consequence to the
advancement of education. It
should be treated as a luxury,
not a necessity. Students are
being exploited for hundreds
of dollars every year. All of
this in the name of prestige?
Going bottom-up is the contrary in my opinion.
The University should cut
expenses for intercollegiate
games. Only students who
attend intercollegiate athletics should pay for expenses.
Why not use this $6.4 million to assist maintaining departments? Teachers haven’t
got enough work, some have
too much time to prioritize.
As a University we should not
be weighing in on issues such
as spandex and lollygagging
instead of quality of teachers
and classes.
Send your thoughts on athletics to Mansoor at letters@
technicianonline.com

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The blogging world erupted in
anticipation of Amazon’s electronic e-book, the Kindle, at the
end of 2007. It did the same thing
this past February when the company released Kindle’s second
edition. But Amazon seemingly
started a competition with itself
early in March when it condensed
its service into a free application,
downloadable on Apple’s iPod
Touch and iPhone.
The announcement for the
service spurred a debate about
how the application will affect
Kindle sales. After all, the new
Kindle costs $359. That’s $359
more than the hundreds of millions of people who, according
to Apple’s quarterly earnings reports, already have an iPhone or
iPod Touch will spend to carry
books around on their phones or
music-playing devices.

Twitter growing
at 1,382 percent
Nielson Online’s February numbers
indicated that Twitter, the social
networking site that continues
to garner celebrity attention and
membership, grew 1,382 percent
in one year. The month of February
alone brought in more than 7 million
unique visitors, up almost 50 percent
since January, during which brought
4.5 unique visitors.
After Facebook’s incorporation of
live updates into its user homepage,
attention is now focused on the
competition between Facebook
and Twitter. Facebook brings in 65.7
million unique visitors, but some see
the larger company’s move to mimic
Twitter’s real-time updates as a way
to halt its growth.

“That would be great if I could
have books on my iPod,” Brandon Long, a sophomore in computer engineering whose iPod
Touch has been attached to his
side since December 2007, said.
“I would definitely read them.”
And iPhones and iPods are less
bulky than the Kindle, which
weighs 10.3 ounces and stands
at seven inches. The iPod Touch
and the iPhone weigh about 4
ounces and stand between four
to five inches.
This also means books have
downsized from tangible, flippable objects to paperless pages

on various e-books — Kindle was
far from the first e-book — to
text on a four-inch screen. Tech
bloggers are writing that the
marriage of e-book service with
already-popular devices like the
iPod could ignite cheaper electronic book development.
But those on the other side of
the debate argue the Kindle App
is most useful as a supplement
to the Kindle itself, hinting that
people who test out the application on their iPhones or iPods
will purchase its namesake.

As expected, news orgs
lost in 2008
The Pew Center’s annual State of
the News Media Report showed that
news organizations lost big in 2008,
and 2009 is probably not going to
be much better. Big online sites like
Yahoo, MSNBC and CNN are growing
at twice the rate they did last year,
but television advertising on news
channels dropped 7 percent and
profit margins have been cut by 50
percent. There was no investment in
newsrooms in 2008 -- few stations
reported new hires and many
cut production and employees.
Newspaper stock prices fell by 83
percent.

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states that it “allows you to seamlessly switch back and forth between your Kindle device and
Kindle for iPhone while keeping your bookmarks and reading
location synchronized between
devices. Now you can easily pick
up reading right where you left
off on your Kindle or iPhone.”
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after more than a year of reading e-mails on a four-inch screen
— but that the free application
won’t hurt Kindle sales.
“I read a lot of stuff on my iPod,
and I don’t have a problem reading the text because I can modify
how big things are on the screen
by zooming in or out,” Long said.
But he said the application
lacks features that come standard on the Kindle, like antiglare pages and daily access to
magazines and newspapers.
“I don’t think I would hurt
the sales of the Kindle,” he
said. “More people would use
the iPhone and, if they like it,

they might even buy an actual
Kindle.”
If the Kindle App’s ratings are
any predictor, though, it might
not work well as marketing technique. A majority of those who
have downloaded and reviewed
the application gave it one out of
five stars — some of them prefer
similar applications like eReader
and Stanza.
The Kindle App’s average user
rating is 2.5 stars. In its fourth
quarterly report, Amazon stated Kindle sales were rising and
that the company expects sales
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Infielder Dallas Poulk slides into home base in the first inning for a run during the game against Elon Wednesday. The Wolfpack lost 5-3.

Wolfpack drops ball against Elon Phoenix
With a subpar performance
all around, Pack unable to
pick up a win
Taylor Barbour
Staff Writer

On a day that had perfect
weather for a baseball game, the
Wolfpack did not play perfect
baseball and lost to the Elon
Phoenix Wednesday evening 5-3.
With only four hits the entire day
on offense and numerous walks
from its pitchers, the baseball
team was unable to overcome
the Phoenix. The loss drops the
Pack to 10-9 on the season and
moves Elon to 9-5.
“It’s tough when you see only
four hits on the board, but I

thought their starter pitched
good, and they had all their
pitchers fresh,” coach Elliott
Avent said. “There was some
progress there though. We played
better, but there are a lot of ways
we have to play better.”
Elon struck first in the top of
the first inning with a run, but
the Pack answered right back
in the bottom half of the inning with a run of its own after
an infield single by junior Dallas Poulk, who was then able to
score from first off of a double by
junior Drew Poulk.
The Phoenix were then able
to tack on four more runs, three
coming in the forth inning off
the bat of Cory Harrichak, who
hit a three-run homerun after
back-to-back walks by redshirt

junior pitcher Alex Sogard. Harricak, who led the Phoenix going
3-4, also pitched 1.2 scoreless innings.
“We just haven’t made as many
good pitches as we want. Me personally, I have had a high number of walks, and I think that is
our biggest problem right now”
Sogard said. “Walks tend to score
a lot, so if we can get those under
control we should be alright.”
State hit a slump offensively
after the first inning, managing
just one hit over the next six innings, until redshirt sophomore
Chris Schaeffer hit a two-run
homerun to take the game to 5-3.
The Pack then remained scoreless, not managing another hit
the rest of the game.
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of guys had better at bats, we
were just hitting it right at people,” Schaeffer said. “We can’t
really complain on the way our
offense went tonight. We just
have to work on it and get better.”
Starting pitcher Zak Sinclair,
who got the loss, managed to
only pitch two innings, giving up
two runs and leaving State leaning heavily on their bullpen. Five
Pack relief pitchers pitched in the
game and combined for seven innings pitched, three runs, six hits
and five strikeouts.
“It’s just like any other game—
you have to be ready the whole
time,” Sogard said. “You can’t
expect the starters to go six or
seven every game, even though
you would like them to.”
Even after the loss and a tough

start to the first part of the
season, the Pack remains
confident in themselves and
their ability.
“Sometimes when things
aren’t going well, it kind of
steams rolls and things carry
over. Guys are putting out
great effort, but maybe it’s
too much, not enough relaxation,” Avent said. “We
played so well in the preseason and we just haven’t
played to that level yet. I think
they are pressing a little bit,
but if they keep going after it
like the way they are in practice, I think things will turn
around.”

Classifieds

Running back Andre Brown
and tight end Anthony Hill were
tested at the NFL Combine in
February and did not participate
in some events. Brown, who had
one of the combine’s top 40-yard
dash times with a 4.49, chose not
to run the 40 Wednesday.
“It was a fast 40, so I feel like
I’m going to stick on that,”
Brown said. “Why come out here
and run it again? I felt like I can
improve on the 3-cone and the
shuttle.”
Antoine Holmes, who ran a
4.87 40 and did 32 repetitions on
the 225-pound bench press, said
you have to accept your results
and move on.
“Naturally, you think you want
to do better than you actually
did, but I am happy with the results I got,” Holmes said.
The NFL draft will be held
April 25-26. Brown, who improved his stock with his NFL
combine performance, said he
has been receiving different
feedback on where he might get
drafted.
“It’s all over. Some people say
first day, some people say early
second day,” Brown said.
Anthony Hill said he is looking forward to getting the entire
draft process behind him.
“I’m excited. I’m not going to
hear my name be called because
I’m actually going fishing,” Hill
said. “I am going to have a good
time. I am going to enjoy the day.
I’m not going to be all nerved
up about it. Hopefully, I will be
catching a lot of red fish.”

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Players try to impress at Pro Day
Brown, Hill and others
try to improve their draft
prospects

The Dail practice facility
was the site of NFL jackets,
stopwatches and practice
cones Wednesday as the
football team hosted its 2009
Pro Day. Scouts from 30 NFL
teams were present to witness
11 Wolfpack players as well as
athletes from Appalachian
State, Shaw and Elizabeth
City State try to prove they
have what it takes to play professionally.
The day began with players having their heights and
weights measured, then
performing the vertical and
broad jumps before moving
onto the bench press. Players
then moved on to the outdoor
practice field for the 40-yard
dash, shuttle run, position
drills and other events.
Punter Bradley Pierson
impressed the scouts present
with his athleticism. Pierson
led all athletes present with a

NFL scouts time punter Bradley Pierson as he completes the 40-yard dash in 4.51 seconds during Pro-Day
on the football practice field Wednesday. On his second attempt, Pierson posted the fastest 40-yard dash
of the day with 4.44 seconds.

4.44 time on the 40-yard dash
and a 35.5-inch mark on the
vertical jump. He said he is used
to opening peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes with his
speed.
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out of a kicker,â&#x20AC;? Pierson said.
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of a kicker, are not very athletic.
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because people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect me
to come out here and be fast. And
then I come out here, and run
one of the fastest times out here.â&#x20AC;?

High expectations set for Davies at NCAA Championships
Lone Pack diver travels to
Texas for final meet
Taylor Barbour
Staff Writer

As the biggest meet of the
year approaches, senior Kristen Davies is peaking at the
right time. Davies took second place in the platform dive
at the ACC Championships in
Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a meet in which
she set five school records
and was named All-ACC for
the second straight year. Last
weekend, she took home first
place honors at the NCAA
diving zone with a total score
of 576.80.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is obviously performing very well. She had a great
ACCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, battling it out with
the current ACC champion
from Miami and another
great one at the zone meet,â&#x20AC;?
coach Jenny Johansen said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is really set up to have a
great meet.â&#x20AC;?
Davies is the only swimmer
or diver from N.C. State that
qualified for the NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and
even though she wishes her
team was with her, she feels
no added pressure about having to represent the Wolfpack
alone.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It kind of sucks that no one
else on the team is here with
me but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a lot of fun.

James Oblinger
Chancellor

I would rather have the whole about what other people think
team with me,â&#x20AC;? Davies said. about how I do,â&#x20AC;? Davies said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it feels awesome being able â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am going to just go after the
to represent the school at the goals I set for myself, which is to
NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;?
medal.â&#x20AC;?
This will not be Daviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first
Davies believes even after tallyNCAA Championship. As a ju- ing her career best score, 314.20,
nior, she was able to take 13th at the ACC Championships there
in the platform dive as a junior. is room for improvement that
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a higher level com- can lead to her finishing well in
petition by far and the depth is the NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.
higher quality and goes deeper,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was awesome. That was
so there is less
where I wanted
chance for makto be and I had
ing up misses,â&#x20AC;?
a great meet. I
Johansen said.
scored a perâ&#x20AC;&#x153;But as far as
s on a l b e s t ,â&#x20AC;?
the crowd and
Dav ie s s a id .
the people, its
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I missed
more that Krisa dive and still
ten will feed off
scored my perof it and just be
sonal best so
excited to be
I know I can
there and feel
do even better.
like she can perThere are just
form in front of
little things I
everybody. She
can improve on
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at it
each dive.â&#x20AC;?
as a lot of presJohansen
#OACH *ENNY *OHANSEN
sure except just
hopes Davies
being excited
is able to use
and going out there hoping to everything she has in this meet
do her best.â&#x20AC;?
and perform well.
Davies, who is competing in
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about putting everyboth the platform and the 3-me- thing she has into it, which she
ter dive, has her own goals and already has done,â&#x20AC;? Johansen said.
expectations for this meet.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything that we have done
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have my own individual this year and everything that she
goals, and I am going after that. has done in her career and in this
But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not really too worried sport leads up to this.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything that
we have done
this year and
everything she
has done in her
career and in this
sport leads up to
this. â&#x20AC;?

CHRIS SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN FILE PHOTO

Senior Kristin Davies executes a dive during the Oct. 3 Red and White
Scrimmage. Davies will be the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swimming & diving teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
lone representatives at the NCAA Championships.